Bram stoker

I glanced up at her. “The Black Court was nearly wiped out, Thomas said. I wonder if that’s because they got a little too much publicity. Do you mind, Miss Rodriguez?” I reached into the basket and produced a nice, smelly clove of garlic, then idly flicked it through the air, toward Mavra.
The vampire didn’t retreat—she simply blurred, and then stood several steps higher than she had been a moment before. The garlic clove bounced against the stairs where she’d been, and tumbled back down toward us. I bent down and picked it up.
“I’d say that’s a big yes.” I looked up at Mavra. “Is that what happened, hmm? Stoker published the Big Book of Black Court Vampire Slaying?”
Those drowned-blue lips peeled back from her yellowed teeth. No fangs. “It matters little. You are beings of paper and cotton. I could tear apart a dozen score of your kind.”
“Unless they’d had an extra spicy pizza, I guess. Let’s get out of here, guys.” I started up the stairs.

Grave Peril Chapter 23, Page 290-291


The vampires of the Black Court had been around since the dawn of human memory. They had acres of funky vampire powers, right out of Stoker’s book. They had the weaknesses too—garlic, tokens of faith, sunlight, running water, fire, decapitation. Bram Stoker’s book told everyone how to kill them, and the Blacks had been all but exterminated in the early twentieth century. The vampires who survived were the most intelligent, the swiftest, the most ruthless of their kind, with centuries of experience in matters of life and death. Mostly death.

Blood Rites Chapter 3, Page 21


Q: I think that was all within the text.  I didn’t record Jim saying it, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t.
The text definitely says that the Wampires somehow motivated Stoker to write his books though.  And Jim does sorta confirm that Stoker was killed for being spot on.
A: Stoker was killed for being delicious.
Lara: Bram, Bram, Bram.  You’ve done so well.  Time for your reward.
Lara (later): …
Lara (in her journal):  It’s so easy to get carried away when one works with the creative talent.  So much enthusiasm.

Quote from: jimbutcher on June 21, 2011, 02:19:09 PM (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,26542.msg1138587.html#msg1138587)


Q: See, so I was right.  He didn’t die of syphilis.  Lara wouldn’t have had it (her demon would have killed it, assuming she’d ever been exposed), and I doubt she’d have had fun times with Stoker if he already had it.  So Lara ate him, and then spread the story that he died of syphilis.  (OK, I admit it, my theory was that the black court killed him and spread the false story.  But I still claim being right that in the DV Stoker did not die of syphilis.)
A: Die of syphilis?  God, no, man.  Stoker was the cutout.
The BC didn’t /know/ about the WC’s involvement until well after the fact, at which point it was entirely academic.  The BC who are left survive because they are extremely pragmatic.  They don’t have enough trouble surviving /without/ picking a fight with the entire White Court, who will only send the peasants and pitchforks anyway?  If one needs to vent one’s spleen, one does it on hapless mortals, preferably those no one will miss.
The BC who wanted to get all ballsy about Just Vengeance died in the fifties and sixties, culminating in the heyday of the Hammer films.

Quote from: jimbutcher on June 21, 2011, 02:38:48 PM (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,26542.msg1138602.html#msg1138602)